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"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail.
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Arthur Silver
reviewed Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854, Volume 6 on January 03, 2014
Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854, Volume 6
This is apparently a series of diaries and letters that have been antholgized. I stumbled upon volume six and it's the only one I've read. These are true letters and diaries of women making the journey across the country in covered wagons in 1853-1854 and are often about the weather, lack of food and the trouble with the natives. Some are more interesting than others. There are some barely literate women who write with astonishing clarity and some educated women who bored me to tears. (One was very religious and her musings about trying to be a better person and do god's will got very old. She didn't appear to be a very KIND person so I got tired of her preaching). It was fascinating to read of the heardships faced by these early travelers.
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Add Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854, Volume 6, We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah, Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854, Volume 6 to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854, Volume 6, We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah, Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854, Volume 6 to your collection on WonderClub |